Team
Core
![Niraj Pant](/images/team/niraj.webp)
Niraj Pant
Co-founderGP @ Polychain, Research @ Decentralized Systems Lab, CS @ UIUC
![Akilesh Potti](/images/team/akilesh.webp)
Akilesh Potti
Co-founderPartner @ Polychain, ML @ Palantir, HFT, Quant Trading @ Goldman, ML Research @ {MIT, Cornell}
![Anish Agnihotri](/images/team/anish.webp)
Anish Agnihotri
MEV, Research @ Paradigm, Trading @ Polychain, CS @ UWaterloo
![Eva Zhang](/images/team/eva.webp)
Eva Zhang
Founder @ Socket, Apple, Google, ML Research @ Stanford, Math & CS @ Stanford
![Saneel Sreeni](/images/team/saneel.webp)
Saneel Sreeni
Founding Team @ Alkimiya, Venture Partner @ Accomplice, Junior Partner @ Dragonfly, M.E.T. @ UC Berkeley
![Maryam Bahrani](/images/team/maryam.webp)
Maryam Bahrani
Research @ a16z crypto, CS PhD @ Columbia (Tim Roughgarden), Quant Trader @ Jane Street, CS @ Princeton
![Joshua Simenhoff](/images/team/josh.webp)
Joshua Simenhoff
Community @ Chainlink Labs, PC Gamer Magazine, Tom's Hardware, MakerBot
![0xEmperor](/images/team/emperor.webp)
0xEmperor
Multi-disciplinary researcher - NLP and ML. Crypto research.
![Yahya Hassanzadeh](/images/team/yahya.webp)
Yahya Hassanzadeh
Cryptography @ Dapper Labs @ Flow Blockchain, Ph.D. CS @ KU Distributed Systems
![Igor Sylvester](/images/team/igor.webp)
Igor Sylvester
Engineering Partner @ Trust Machines, Staff SWE ML @ Reddit & Meta, Citadel, EECS @ MIT
![Praveen Palanisamy](/images/team/praveen.webp)
Praveen Palanisamy
Principal AI Eng @ Microsft AI & Research, CS @ CMU
![0xQTpie](/images/team/0xqtpie.webp)
0xQTpie
mev, full stack engineering
![Achal Srinivasan](/images/team/achal.webp)
Achal Srinivasan
Collaborator to Paradigm, dYdX, and more. Previously Coinbase, CS @ Rice.
![Wally Chang](/images/team/wally.webp)
Wally Chang
DeFi @ Polychain, Algo Trading @ Goldman Sachs
![Misha Rybalov](/images/team/misha.webp)
Misha Rybalov
Staff SDET @ Dapper Labs @ Flow Blockchain, @ Norton, Sys Des Eng @ UWaterloo
![Stelios Rousoglou](/images/team/stelios.webp)
Stelios Rousoglou
Founding Eng @ Alta, SWE @ C3, Masters in CS [AI] @ Stanford, CS @ Yale
![Celia Wan](/images/team/celia.webp)
Celia Wan
Partner @ Dragonfly, Huobi Ventures, The Block, UChicago
![Stef Henao](/images/team/stef.webp)
Stef Henao
Head of People @ Protocol Labs, HRBP @ Coinbase, People Ops @ Hired, IB Analyst @ Credit Suisse
![Arshan Khanifar](/images/team/arshan.webp)
Arshan Khanifar
Research, Trading @ Polychain, RF @ Apple, EE @ UWaterloo
![Ricky Moezinia](/images/team/ricky.webp)
Ricky Moezinia
Founder @ Alta, Software Engineer @ Libra, Quant @ Point72, EECS @ MIT
![Micah Goldblum](/images/team/micah.webp)
Micah Goldblum
Postdoc @ NYU (Yann Lecunn), AI; PhD @ University of Maryland (Tom Goldstein), Mathematics
![Naveen Durvasula](/images/team/naveen.webp)
Naveen Durvasula
PhD student @ Columbia (Tim Roughgarden), Algorithmic Game Theory, EECS @ UC Berkeley
![Mayank Pandey](/images/team/mayank.webp)
Mayank Pandey
PhD student @ Princeton (Peter Sarnak), Analytic Number Theory, Math @ Caltech, Citadel
![William Wang](/images/team/william.webp)
William Wang
Ph.D. Student @ NYU (Benedikt Bünz, Joe Bonneau), Cryptography
![Darryl Yeo](/images/team/darryl.webp)
Darryl Yeo
Founder @ blockhead.info, Software Engineer @ dYdX, CS @ Cal Poly SLO
Interns
Advisors
![Illia Polosukhin](/images/team/illia.webp)
Illia Polosukhin
Founder @ Near, Google Research, Tensorflow & Transformers, Co-Author “Attention is All You Need”
![Arthur Hayes](/images/team/arthur.webp)
Arthur Hayes
CIO @ Maelstrom, Co-Founder @ BitMEX and 100x Group, Economics @ Wharton
![Sreeram Kannan](/images/team/sreeram.webp)
Sreeram Kannan
Founder @ EigenLayer, Assistant Prof @ UW, Postdoc @ Stanford, PhD @ UC Berkeley
![Tarun Chitra](/images/team/tarun.webp)
Tarun Chitra
Founder @ Gauntlet, GP @ Robot Ventures, HFT, DE Shaw Research, Math & CS @ Cornell
![Divya Gupta](/images/team/divya.webp)
Divya Gupta
Partner @ Sequoia, ML @ Airbnb, Databricks, Palantir, CS @ Stanford
![Sid Reddy](/images/team/sid.webp)
Sid Reddy
Research Scientist @ Isomorphic Labs, Meta Reality Labs, Deepmind, PhD @ UC Berkeley (Sergey Levine), CS @ Cornell